Salina with her role models and parents, Salim and Azmina.

Salina Dharamsi, an outstanding humanitarian leadership and fundraising in her local community and internationally, inspiring other youth to volunteer their service, was among MP Joyce Murray’s 30 recipients of Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medals for outstanding service to the Vancouver Quadra community. “I would like to thank all nominees for their service to the community, and all nominators for their efforts to ensure admirable leaders in Vancouver Quadra are recognized,” said Murray.

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Salina Dharamsi

An advocate for equity, justice and global acceptance, Salina displays a social conscience that marks her as a true leader. Salina has served as a World Vision Youth Ambassador in Rwanda, a United Nations Panelist on Disaster Risk Reduction in New York and a Global Platform Youth Facilitator in Geneva. Locally, she is a tireless volunteer who has taught nutrition classes in the Downtown Eastside, tutored children with learning disabilities and served as a volunteer for Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. In recognition of her extraordinary contributions, Salina is an Order of Canada Youth Mentee, as well as a recipient of the BC Community Achievement Medallion. Salina is completing her UBC accounting and e-business degree, and has excelled as a co-op student at KPMG.

Connecting the Community Quote:

“My passion for advocating for mothers in difficult circumstances was sparked while representing World Vision at a widows’ cooperative in Rwanda; working to achieve self-reliance and independence those mothers, and the at-risk teens I work with locally, are my inspiration for supporting YWCA’s early learning and child care program which provides affordable childcare to teen moms enrolled at Tupper Secondary School.”

Article: http://www.ywcavan.org/content/2012_Nominees___Young_Women_of_Distinction/

VANCOUVER – MP Joyce Murray is pleased to congratulate the 30 recipients of Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medals for outstanding service to the Vancouver Quadra community.

“I would like to thank all nominees for their service to the community, and all nominators for their efforts to ensure admirable leaders in Vancouver Quadra are recognized,” said MP Murray.

Murray assembled an independent committee to select the 30 medal recipients, in order to ensure different perspectives and communities were included in the decisions.

She continued, “The selection committee of 10 community leaders had their work cut out for them, with the difficult task of reviewing and selecting the thirty winners from almost 150 diverse and accomplished nominees.

“Thank you to Selection Committee Chair Ms. Penny Bain, and all committee members, community leaders in their own right, who volunteered their time to assist in the process of honouring Vancouver Quadra’s outstanding leaders; and to Colonel Bryan Gagne who assisted in the selection of four Canadian Forces recipients.”

Recipient Salina Dharamsi

Outstanding humanitarian leadership and fundraising in her local community and internationally, inspiring other youth to volunteer their service

Full article: https://joycemurray.liberal.ca/uncategorized/queen-elizabeth-ii-diamond-jubilee-medal-announcement/